A recent poll from King’s College London caused quite a stir when it found that half of Brits believe young people cannot afford to get on the property ladder because “they spend too much of their income on things like takeaway coffees, food, mobile phones, subscription services like Netflix and holidays abroad”.
Ask any young person – or anybody with any common sense – and you’ll find out that the notion is nonsense.
People in this country don’t tend to talk much about money. A third of us are